The PC at issue:
64-bit install, GeForce 7800GTX with two monitors connected via DVI, trying to use the proprietary driver as provided by nvidia-current.
This is a bit of an odd one, since I can't quite figure out what would've changed and it took me forever to convince myself that it was in fact actually an error and not simply me somehow not having the right package configured or xorg.conf screwed up or whatnot, but what I finally seem to be at is the following: X fails to start because it tries to start up the onboard graphics, which fails, and thus despite how (from the logs, at least) the PCI-E card starting fine it bumps me into the failed X screen (which I think is BulletProofX?).
I actually remember, on this computer, when BulletProofX was first added it would keep prompting me with that screen, but I could just click "cancel" and it'd finish starting X just fine, so I never actually looked into quite what was going wrong. For the last few distro versions that's been fixed, but now it seems to be back with a vengeance.
I've attached the kdm, kern and Xorg logs (along with my current xorg.conf) in case I'm misunderstanding things, or in case more info would be needed if any kind soul is able to help. My main hypothesis here, to sum up, is that with the built-in (Geforce 6150 on PCI 0:5:0) graphics failing for some reason, despite the adapter I'm actually using (GeForce 7800GTX on PCI 3:0:0, which I've specified with busid "PCI:3:0:0" in xorg.conf) working fine the failure condition is being triggered and it's locking me over into the failsafe screen. So perhaps disabling BulletProofX would fix the problem? Although that sounds like a sub-obtimal fix.
64-bit install, GeForce 7800GTX with two monitors connected via DVI, trying to use the proprietary driver as provided by nvidia-current.
This is a bit of an odd one, since I can't quite figure out what would've changed and it took me forever to convince myself that it was in fact actually an error and not simply me somehow not having the right package configured or xorg.conf screwed up or whatnot, but what I finally seem to be at is the following: X fails to start because it tries to start up the onboard graphics, which fails, and thus despite how (from the logs, at least) the PCI-E card starting fine it bumps me into the failed X screen (which I think is BulletProofX?).
I actually remember, on this computer, when BulletProofX was first added it would keep prompting me with that screen, but I could just click "cancel" and it'd finish starting X just fine, so I never actually looked into quite what was going wrong. For the last few distro versions that's been fixed, but now it seems to be back with a vengeance.
I've attached the kdm, kern and Xorg logs (along with my current xorg.conf) in case I'm misunderstanding things, or in case more info would be needed if any kind soul is able to help. My main hypothesis here, to sum up, is that with the built-in (Geforce 6150 on PCI 0:5:0) graphics failing for some reason, despite the adapter I'm actually using (GeForce 7800GTX on PCI 3:0:0, which I've specified with busid "PCI:3:0:0" in xorg.conf) working fine the failure condition is being triggered and it's locking me over into the failsafe screen. So perhaps disabling BulletProofX would fix the problem? Although that sounds like a sub-obtimal fix.
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